[Reader-list] Stay Away,Pandits Told-Telegraph

[Kashmir Affairs]

Well! Ahsan Dar does not belong to Hizb and therefore his is definitely a view from fringe or not even that. Hizbul Mujahideen is still present in Kashmir and the only indigenous Kashmiri resistance. Dar left Hizb in early 1991 and formed his own group known as Muslim Mujahideen that later became second counter insurgent group in Kashmir after Ikhwan.
whatever is the case - Dar's statement should be condemned with full force. I remember meeting Dar sahib umpteen times when he was the most wanted man and even doing his first ever interview for the Indian press in early 1991. As Hizb chief he allegedly issued a press statement that time on behalf of Hizb asking Pandits to leave the Valley which added to the fear among the minority.
Many years later, when he was chief of Muslim Mujahideen and was living freely in Srinagar, I asked him about his role in that press release - he feigned ignorance accusing the indian intelligence for issuing it. Strangely it is widely believed that Muslim Mujahideen was formed by the Indian agencies and Dar was fully being supported by the Indian security - an allegation that can be corroborated with much circumstantial evidence. Muslim Mujahideen was later completely taken over the Indian Army.
But now that Dar Sahib has come back from Pakistan after a long hiatus, one wonders whose side is he on? Loyalties in Kashmir often shift faster than wind.
 
Murtaza
 
----
Murtaza Shibli
www.kashmiraffairs.org

--- On Wed, 6/8/08, Kshmendra Kaul <kshmendra2005 at yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Kshmendra Kaul <kshmendra2005 at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Reader-list] Stay Away,Pandits Told-Telegraph
To: "sarai list" <>
Date: Wednesday, 6 August, 2008, 2:19 PM

" This is clearly a fringe view in the Valley. The Hizb hardly has any
presence left for its warnings to be taken seriously"
 
This comment could have been made only by someone who:
 
(a.) has very little idea of the realities of Kashmir    OR
 
(b.) acts (knowingly or unknowingly) as a mouthpiece for the separatists in
Kashmir and in that role regurgitates from publications like 'Greater
Kashmir', promoting thereby the separatist agenda      OR
 
(c.) is a complete idiot
 
Shivam Vij certainly qualifies for (a.) and (b.). No wonder he made that
comment.
 
 
Kshmendra  


--- On Mon, 8/4/08, Shivam Vij शिवम् <mail at shivamvij.com>
wrote:

From: Shivam Vij शिवम् <mail at shivamvij.com>
Subject: Re: [Reader-list] Stay Away,Pandits Told-Telegraph
To: "rashneek kher" <rashneek at gmail.com>
Cc: "sarai list" <reader-list at sarai.net>
Date: Monday, August 4, 2008, 3:05 PM

This is clearly a fringe view in the Valley. The Hizb hardly has any
presence left for its warnings to be taken seriously




      
_________________________________________
reader-list: an open discussion list on media and the city.
Critiques & Collaborations
To subscribe: send an email to reader-list-request at sarai.net with subscribe in
the subject header.
To unsubscribe: https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/reader-list 
List archive: &lt;https://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/>


      __________________________________________________________
Not happy with your email address?.
Get the one you really want - millions of new email addresses available now at Yahoo! http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/ymail/new.html